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4th Quarter 2023 Economic And Market Outlook: Labor Market, Inflation, And Geopolitics

Nerd's Eye View

The sentiment is especially poignant when it comes to economic forecasting, as it's nearly impossible to get an accurate picture of the current state of the economy at any given moment. Moreover, historically extreme valuations in a small handful of mega-cap stocks that account for about 30% of the market weight in the S&P 500 (i.e.,

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Why International Diversification Is Still The Prudent Strategy (While Keeping Behavioral Biases, Risks, And Results In A Healthy Perspective)

Nerd's Eye View

stock market has, on average, outperformed international equities over the last 15 years since emerging from the Great Recession of 2008, many investors argue that international diversification is a poor allocation of dollars that would otherwise be earning more in the U.S. Given the current (as of March 2023) economic positions for the U.S.

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America’s Enormous Math Mistake’s Mistake

The Big Picture

Since 2008, the Census Bureau has included government transfers in its Supplemental Poverty Measure. Or is anything economic Phil Gramm touches simply destined to be a dumpster fire of lies, foolishness, and incompetency? ” In 2008. It is untrue. Sheer stupidity? You may remember Phil Gramm.

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These Are the Goods

The Irrelevant Investor

Articles Ultra-low interest rates make the economics of using cheap debt to buy small companies at a low valuation and selling them at a higher one look pretty attractive. By Howard Lindzon) Millennium has generated an average calendar-year return of 14% for the past 33 years, with only one loss year in 2008. (By Marc Rubins.

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Transcript: Albert Wenger

The Big Picture

You graduate Harvard in 1990, with an Economics and Computer Science degree, perfect for the explosion of the Internet; a PhD from MIT and Information Technology in ‘96. I led the Union Square Ventures investment in Etsy, I became a venture partner for that, and then became a GP in the 2008 fund. I did these angel investments.

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Four Hard Investing Lessons From 2022 With Silver Linings

Validea

Even with bear markets like 2000-2002 and 2008-2009, the portfolio had strong returns for a very long period. While some of that outperformance was due to improving fundamentals and earnings, most of it the returns came from the valuation investors assigned to these stocks. Source: [link]. The yellow metal then saw two positive years.

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Paul Singer, Who Predicted The Economic Crises, On What’s Next

Validea

Paul Singer, founder of Elliott Management and well-known for predicting the financial crisis of 2008, calls the current environment “an extraordinarily dangerous and confusing period,” in an interview with The Wall Street Journal. But for long-term prosperity in the U.S.